Hi! Just noticed this post :-) I started the game in the late 90’s and open sourced it in 2001 The previous versions were win Mac Linux but the current dev team has been focusing on Linux right now.

At the time there were some mod communities like privateer Gemini gold with a polished release and Vega Trek; those also had windows builds that also work on wine. You might need to install into a folder with read/write permissions.